h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I learned some history there. You know, around 1830 is when the US gave most (free, white) men the vote. Which did us no good at all: we got one A. Jackson as president. You know, the one they compare the current one to?

Anyway, I got all the matching, but only two of the others.

Most men in Britain got the vote in 1884, following the Representation of the People Act and Redistribution of Seats Act, which increased the number of male voters to about 60%. It was not until the 1918 Representation of the People Act that all British men over 21 and women over 30 were allowed to vote (and stand for Parliament). Women over 21 were allowed to get the vote in the UK in 1928 (the delay of ten years to women having the same age of voting as men was because there were far more women in society following the Great War).

I thought I'd made them easier this week too.

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We'll see once we get some more returns.

Yes, I did well on this one - some good alternative clues in there, but I managed to deduce most of the correct answers. Forest House pudden took me in, though, as I did the G quiz first...

Particularly fascinating about pangs of hunger being leer (empty in German).

If I was a cunning linguist I'd be interested in studying the similarities in dialect between the Isle of Wight and Kent, as they were the two areas settled by Jutes rather than Angles or Saxons. Probably a couple of centuries too late, though...

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'You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.' - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake